Table of S-block engines S block engines Code Years Bore Stroke Compr. There's still some of that whitebread stuff, to be sure, like the vaudeville-edged 'Frog Prince.' But there are also cuts with echoes of moody flamenco ('She Sleeps Alone' and 'The Old Melody') and dreamy Baroque psychedelia ('Lullaby'), as well as ones that resemble the Monkees in a particularly upbeat frame of mind ('She's Got the Magic' and 'I Can See Love').Ĭontents. While nothing else has the obvious hit singalong appeal of 'Sunshine Girl,' the other 45 tracks are well-crafted, cleanly produced exponents of late-'60s Southern Californian harmony pop/rock that are generally a bit more mature, and not as ornate or cheerily bouncy, as much other sunshine pop of the era.
The crucial half of the disc are the dozen tracks from those 1967-1968 singles, starting with the 1967 Top 20 hit 'Sunshine Girl,' which is now regarded as one of the core anthems of the sunshine pop genre. This 23-song 2009 CD compilation is a kind of belated substitute for the record, including both sides of all six of the singles they issued in 19 a couple other tracks, 'Lovers,' and 'Kinda Wasted Without You' some demos and alternate/mono/45 mixes recordings by the Roger Nichols Trio and Smokey Roberds in which some members were involved and even a 1965 acetate by Connie Austin of a soul-pop song written by Paraders Murray MacLeod and Smokey Roberds.
Review Text Although the Parade had planned to release an LP titled Sunshine Girl in 1968, that record failed to appear when A&M shelved it.
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